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San Jose-native Joey Chestnut wins again in the 93rd annual Nathan’s International July Fourth Hot Dog Eating Contest – defeating rival Takeru Kobayashi, as reported in “San Jose’s Joey Chestnut stuffs rival in OT of hot-dog eating contest“:
“After 10 minutes of super-human overindulgence, Chestnut and arch-rival and six-time world champ Takeru Kobayashi had each inhaled 59 Nathan’s hot dogs. So before a live ESPN audience and thousands more watching the contest in person at Coney Island, Chestnut and Kobayashi went stomach-to-stomach in what a commentator called a “dog-off.” Each was given five hot dogs and buns to eat in overtime. First one to finish would win. Chestnut wolfed them down in 50 seconds, seven seconds faster than Kobayashi.”
Now this being July 4th weekend, I went to a few BBQ’s, and I cannot imagine eating 59 hot dogs over a 10 hour period, let alone ten minutes! Eating 59 hot dogs is crazy! (and definitely not healthy). I will never understand the world of competitive eating…
